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In the period from April 2015, up until his death, he was reprimanded for assaulting fellow prisoners on four separate occasions, as well as for being rude and abusive to staff. He also became the victim of an assault on May 23, when the prisoner he had attacked the previous day retaliated by hitting him on the head with an improvised weapon in a sock.

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Mr Rogers sustained minor injuries.

The last recorded incident of breaking prison rules was the day before his death when his shared cell was found to have an improvised phone charger which is forbidden, and he was put ‘on report’.

Details of prison life were provided by prison governor Joe Belso, who is responsible for safety within the prison.

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He recalled how Mr Rogers had been moved to a different wing during his stay to separate individuals involved in an organised crime group he was linked to.

He said: “He was known to have level of links with organised crime group we had in prison at the time. He was on the periphery.

“He was well-known as a fairly problematic individual. The perception was he was quite a Jack the Lad.”

During his time in prison he denied taking psychoactive substances such as Spice, which Mr Belso admitted was available in the prison at the time of his death, but back then it was not detectable on drug tests. Back then there were ‘legal highs’, but were prohibited in prison.

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Shortly before his death he told the prison GP on April 16 his partner had left him, he had no contact with his child, and was facing a long prison sentence.

Mr Rogers, who was born in Manchester, was found hanging from the windows bars of his cell having used a torn bedsheet to end his life.

A post mortem examination confirmed the cause of death was hanging. Traces of cannabinoids were found in his urine, but the report said it was unable to determine if it was from cannabis or manmade synthetic drugs like Spice before his death.

Pathologist Dr Amanda Jeffery said: “I can’t exclude he had taken something and it had broken down before we were able to detect it.”

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She explained: “The difficulty with the substance is we don’t know a great deal about them, and they are very different and strengths are very different, and they are unstable in blood and break down very quickly.”

Mr Rogers had been part of a gang who had lived a jet-set lifestyle and went on to be jailed for a total of 140 years by Exeter Crown Court for supplying class A drugs.

They used a cottage in Exbourne as one of their bases and organised 48 drug deliveries to Plymouth, Newton Abbot and Torbay over the space of just 12 months.

They used a fleet of cars and vans with secret compartments to try to avoid detection, but were tracked by a painstaking police operation. The 19-strong gang received jail terms of up to 13 years.